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noun
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a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
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a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill.
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Government. a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law.
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EXPANDa written or printed public notice or advertisement.
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any written paper containing a statement of particulars: a bill of expenditures.
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Law. a written statement, usually of complaint, presented to a court.
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Slang. one hundred dollars: The job pays five bills a week.
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entertainment scheduled for presentation; program: a good bill at the movies.
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COLLAPSEverb (used with object)
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to charge for by bill; send a bill to: The store will bill me.
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to enter (charges) in a bill; make a bill or list of: to bill goods.
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to advertise by bill or public notice: A new actor was billed for this week.
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to schedule on a program: The management billed the play for two weeks.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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fill the bill, to fulfill the purpose or need well: As a sprightly situation comedy this show fills the bill.
Related forms
bill·er, noun
Synonyms
1. reckoning, invoice, statement. 5. bulletin, handbill, poster, placard, announcement, circular, throwaway, flyer, broadside.
1. reckoning, invoice, statement. 5. bulletin, handbill, poster, placard, announcement, circular, throwaway, flyer, broadside.
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noun
1.
the parts of a bird's jaws that are covered with a horny or leathery sheath; beak.
2.
the visor of a cap or other head covering.
3.
a beaklike promontory or headland.
verb (used without object)
Idiom4.
to join bills or beaks, as doves.
5.
bill and coo, to kiss or fondle and whisper endearments, as lovers: My sister and her boyfriend were billing and cooing on the front porch.
noun
1.
a medieval shafted weapon having at its head a hooklike cutting blade with a beak at the back.
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Also called billman. a person armed with a bill.
3.
Also called billhook. a sharp, hooked instrument used for pruning, cutting, etc.
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Also called pea. Nautical. the extremity of a fluke of an anchor.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English bil, Old English bill sword; cognate with Old High German bil pickax
before 1000; Middle English bil, Old English bill sword; cognate with Old High German bil pickax
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bill
"bird's beak," O.E., related to bill, a poetic word for "a kind of sword" (especially one with a hooked blade), from a common Germanic word for cutting or chopping weapons (cf. O.H.G. bihal, O.N. bilda "hatchet," O.S. bil "sword"), from PIE base *bheie- "to cut, to strike." Used also in M.E. of beak-like
EXPANDprojections of land.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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